Threatened coup, rise of Islamism slow European Union accession hopes for Ankara
Turkey’s High Constitutional Court has annulled a parliamentary vote which would have made Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, ally of the Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan the new President and likely would have sparked a military coup. The army is the leading force for secularism and the state’s official ideology forged by the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Army coups replaced civilian government in 1960, 1971, 1980 and 1997.
No party in Turkey is allowed to stand for anything except official “Kemalism” — a racially-based and secularist ideology — though Erdoðan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) has an Islamist core dressed in Kemalist clothes. Islamism has a lot of popular opposition, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets in recent “Republic Protests” against Gul and Erdoðan, and a coup would likely be welcomed by large parts of the population.
Erdoðan has responded to the High Constitutional Court decision, which is blatantly political, with calls for early elections and a change in the constitution.
These developments are very important for whites: the constitutional crisis in Turkey will slow down the hopes of many Eureaucrats and others that Turkey will soon join the European Union. This would give Turks the right to live anywhere on the continent legally. Other problems facing the Turks have been a refusal to recognize the Armenian Genocide, various laws against free speech, and ongoing repression of the Indo-European-speaking Kurds.Opposition in Turkey to Islamism is largely racially based: Turkey, in its Ottoman phase, ruled over millions of Muslims, especially the Arabs who are the main force behind today’s Islamism in the region, which is officially internationalist and opposed to national pride. Turkish racial feeling has gone so far that they have allied themselves closely with Israel as a fellow non-Arab regional force.
The Turks still look down on their Arab former subjects and pine for a pan-Turkic unification that would draw together Turkic peoples across Central Asia and into Western China. Pan-Turkic sentiment has also led Ankara to support their white former subjects in the Balkans, such as the Albanians and Bosniaks. (Albanians like the great Muhammad Ali were mainstays of the old Ottoman system).
Additionally, most Turks adhere to non-standard forms of Islam, such as Alevism and Sufism, highly influenced by native animistic beliefs and anathema to mainstream Sunni Islam.
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